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EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
Hard Light
June 27, 2004 to September 27, 2004
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Hard Light, a group exhibition featuring works by internationally renowned artists Doug Aitken, Fischli/Weiss, Carsten Höller, Chris Marker, Bruce Nauman, Ugo Rondinone, Ed Ruscha, and Lawrence Weiner.
The co-curatorial effort of P.S.1 Chief Curator Klaus Biesenbach and artist Doug Aitken, Hard Light brings together works by nine artists who engage in a range of processes of narrative construction. Among other similarities, the works in this exhibition all explore particular qualities of light, or �hard light� (a film/photography term used to describe a lighting situation that casts a sharp, clearly defined shadow), that contribute to the development of fragmented, or broken, �ambient� narratives.
The exhibition will include Doug Aitken's recent monumental video installation Interiors (2002), large-scale photographs from Fischli/Weiss� Airport series (1988-1998); Atomium Phi (2004), a light-based sculpture by Carsten Höller, preparatory materials (storyboards, photographs, notes and drawings) for Chris Marker's legendary 1962 film La Jet�e, Bruce Nauman's celebrated Green Light Corridor (1970), a large photography and sound installation, Sleep (1999), by Ugo Rondinone, as well as preparatory materials for Ed Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner's 1978 book, Hard Light.
Interiors consists of eleven fabric screens that form an enclosed viewing space, three of which receive shifting video projections. The translucency of the remaining panels permits the audience to view alternating imagery from both inside and outside the enclosure. The installation focuses on four distinct characters/scenarios: a Tokyo auctioneer, a young man (Andre 3000 from the music group Outkast) navigating desolate urban streets, a helicopter factory worker who doubles as a tap dancer, and a young woman playing handball. Each individual scenario has a unique soundtrack. Aitken's fusion of sound and imagery successfully unifies these seemingly disparate story lines. |
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